A cultural history of the face - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2020/21
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	19.10.2020 - 30.11.2020 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Di	10:00 bis 12:00	wöchentlich	03.11.2020 bis 09.02.2021	Online.Veranstaltung	Dr. Madörin	22.12.2020: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 29.12.2020: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	30

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. The rise of the selfie and the fixation on the face resides in what Zach Blas (2013) termed “global face culture,” a culture driven by impulses to know, capture, calculate, categorize, and standardize human faces. Similar to the measuring instruments built in the disciplines of racial science, today’s facial algorithms treat the face as a truth-telling and static repository. The singling out and capturing was believed to reveal someone’s real identity in the form of race, criminal character, moral flaws, and virtues. Contemporary facial recognition software used in biometric identification and mass surveillance continues to draw from scientific methods, which rested on the notion that an isolated representation of the face can give away a person’s truth. Recent examples for this are the building of algorithmic software that attempts to detect a person’s sexuality, criminal status or personality, including whether someone is a terrorist, by using a single facial portrait. In this seminar we will scrutinize the face from a visual culture perspective––and link dispersed visual representations of the face over time. Students will engage with a range of cultural technologies of the face (selfies, mugshots, the bourgeois portrait, the passport picture, facial algorithms…) and reflect on different modalities of face cultures.
Leistungsnachweis	Anouk Madörin

Kommentar

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

The rise of the selfie and the fixation on the face resides in what Zach Blas (2013) termed “global face culture,” a culture driven by impulses to know, capture, calculate, categorize, and standardize human faces. Similar to the measuring instruments built in the disciplines of racial science, today’s facial algorithms treat the face as a truth-telling and static repository. The singling out and capturing was believed to reveal someone’s real identity in the form of race, criminal character, moral flaws, and virtues. Contemporary facial recognition software used in biometric identification and mass surveillance continues to draw from scientific methods, which rested on the notion that an isolated representation of the face can give away a person’s truth. Recent examples for this are the building of algorithmic software that attempts to detect a person’s sexuality, criminal status or personality, including whether someone is a terrorist, by using a single facial portrait. In this seminar we will scrutinize the face from a visual culture perspective––and link dispersed visual representations of the face over time. Students will engage with a range of cultural technologies of the face (selfies, mugshots, the bourgeois portrait, the passport picture, facial algorithms…) and reflect on different modalities of face cultures.

Leistungsnachweis

Anouk Madörin

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2020/21 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024